- Hi, it's Parris from Epic Review Guys,
and I am dressed to go over to the YMCA
to spend my hour a day
on the exercise machines there.
Recently, I've had a few issues with
my left knee, and my right ankle.
The folks at Wu Ju Fitness were kind enough
to send me these new things.
I've seen this sort of thing advertised on TV,
where it stretches around, holds your joints together,
so you can get through your workout.
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Here's the knee and ankle support from Wu Ju Fitness.
It's an elastic material that helps provide some
extra support to the joints when they're in motion.
I'm going to try it out exercising,
but it's also supposed to be good
if you have arthritis.
Thanks to the folks at Wu Ju Fitness
for sending me these to try out.
Each of them's less than $20 online.
If you'd like to find out more about them,
I've put a link down below this video.
So I'm going to put these on now,
see how comfortable they are,
see how much support they provide,
then I'm off to the YMCA for an hour.
With my camera phone, I'll record a little
of my knee and ankle in action on
the machine over there, and
then I'll come back here and give you a follow up report.
Starting with the knee support,
the diamond seems to go to the front.
It looks a little bit wider at the top here,
so I'm going to put this up where my leg is wider.
This is a medium size.
I didn't think I needed a large, we'll see.
Well the design certainly got larger, sliding onto my leg.
I think your knee is supposed to be right in there.
Well, it's stretchy.
It feels like it makes my leg
spring to whatever position I'm putting it in.
It feels a little bunched here.
Ok.
Now, for the ankle.
This one actually slides down onto your foot,
and this is where your heel comes out.
I wonder if I should wear it over the sock,
or under the sock.
I'm going to wear it over the sock.
Also a medium.
I have size 10 feet.
Ok.
This is also supposed to help with Plantar Fasciitis.
Where you get that tightness in the bottom of
your foot after you get out of bed in the morning,
or after you've been sitting awhile.
And I have been through and had that, but
having lost weight seems to have
gotten rid of that, in my case, for the most part.
This doesn't feel like it's providing as much
springiness and tension on my ankle
as this one does on my knee.
I climbed down off the desk and walked around a little.
I can walk pretty normally with this on.
It's a lot more compaction than I'm used to here,
but we'll see how it goes with the exercise machine.
Folks that walked by across the street there,
looking in the windows saying,
"what's that man doing on his desk?",
but they're always entertained when they walk by.
So, off to the YMCA.
I'll show you what happens there.
Tell you how this worked out for a one hour work out.
I'm back from the YMCA gym.
I've had the knee support and the ankle support
on for about an hour and a half now.
I can tell you that, when I first
started walking around with the knee support on
it felt sort of like I had a kid, if you have kids
this would happen to you.
A little kid sitting on your foot and hugging
your leg, like this, and
your trying to walk with him on there.
But, I've gotten used to it since.
Also, when I first started on the exercise bicycle,
the knee support felt like it was
sort of bunching up in the back of my knee
every time I would bend my knee up.
Which it has to, obviously, do somewhat,
just the way that fabric works.
But, once I got on my phone, and
started doing other things, I didn't notice that anymore.
And, I was very aware of both of them
when I first started wearing them.
The ankle one, I kind of forgot about fairly quickly.
The knee support, finally now,
unless I think about it I don't even remember
that I have it on my knee.
So, let me get back up on the desk, here.
Take both of them off, and
see what my joints look like underneath.
I would say that this knee support definitely helped.
My issue, when I would put the resistance
too high on the exercise bicycle,
is it felt sort of like my leg
wasn't staying in a straight line.
It was having to work to not go off to the side
when I would push down, because
of all the resistance.
This helped because I had it up at
higher resistance today, and I felt none of that.
I didn't feel like my knee was
sort of going out to the side.
It did what I wanted it to do.
Now, am I purple underneath it or something?
Let's see.
No, not yet.
No, not really that wet or sweaty.
Looks fine, the blood continued to flow there, that's good.
Now, for the ankle support.
This wasn't nearly as tight, so
I didn't feel the constrictingness of it.
I, also, sort of forgot about it more quickly.
But, it did a good job, I didn't feel anything
funny in the ankle about it sliding side to side,
again, with that increased resistance
on the exercise bicycle.
How did it do inside here?
Pretty deep.
Looks fine, doesn't feel like it got especially sweaty.
So, the Wu Ju knee and ankle support,
they did what they're supposed to do.
I'm pleased with these.
I do know they sell some versions,
as seen on TV, now, that have copper fibers in it.
Something that I can't imagine
that really makes a difference,
but I may get a pair of those just to
try them out and compare.
If you'd be interested in seeing how they compare to these,
please let me know in the comments, down below this video.
For less than $20 each, and again, I'll have links
to these down below the video,
seems like they do a pretty good job
whether you it's you're doing some kind of exercise,
and you need some extra support for your joints,
or because you have arthritis, and
I was reading, they also mention
if you've had some sort of surgey
that made the joint not quite as strong
these are a good support for that, as well.
I'll be back soon with another review,
probably wearing more clothes,
but check back and find out, or
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